1 Chronicles 5:25-26
Context5:25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors 1 and worshiped instead 2 the gods of the native peoples 3 whom God had destroyed before them. 5:26 So the God of Israel stirred up 4 King Pul of Assyria (that is, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria), 5 and he carried away the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh and took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this very day.
1 tn Heb “fathers.”
2 tn Heb “prostituted themselves after.”
3 tn Heb “the peoples of the land.”
4 tn Heb “stirred up the spirit of.”
5 tn Heb “and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria.” “Pul” and “Tilgath-pilneser” were names of the same Assyrian ruler, more commonly known as Tiglath-pileser (cf. 2 Kgs 15:29).